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10 months ago   

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Anders Behring Breivik mente at det at han ikke fikk gjennomslag for det han oppfattet som gode argumenter i en svært viktig sak, legitimerte terrorhandlingen.

(A.B.B. believed that (the fact) that he did not get approval for what he perceived to be good arguments in a very important cause, legitimized terrorist action.)

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- Pretty complicated sentence, from the DLF’s article on the Oslo attacks.

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1 year ago   

"Do not say that you’re afraid to trust your mind because you know so little. Are you safer in surrendering to mystics and discarding the little that you know? Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience—that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible—that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted by faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error. In place of your dream of an omniscient automaton, accept the fact that any knowledge man acquires is acquired by his own will and effort, and that that is his distinction in the universe, that is his nature, his morality, his glory."

- John Galt

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1 year ago    |   Notes: 1

"[My wife] can live through [the times when I am away and in danger], Miss Taggart, because we do not hold the belief that this earth is a realm of misery where man is doomed to destruction. We do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and we do not live in chronic dread of disaster. We do not expect disaster until we have specific reason to expect it—and when we encounter it, we are free to fight it. It is not happiness, but suffering that we consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that we regard as the abnormal exception in human life."

- Ragnar Danneskjöld, Atlas Shrugged
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1 year ago   

"So this “omniscience” standard of knowledge, which means you have to know everything and be god and whatnot before you can believe anything, is clearly wrong."

- Objectivism 101, The Themes of Epistemology. http://objectivism101.com/Lectures/Lecture3.shtml

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2 years ago   

"When faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again."

- Professor Bernardo de la Paz, ‘The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress,’ Robert A. Heinlein

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2 years ago   

"will i wake to find you waiting by my bedside?"

- ‘sleep,’ copeland

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2 years ago   

"TANSTAAFL"

- ‘The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress,’ Robert A. Heinlein

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2 years ago   

"it’s that time of year / leave all our hopelessnesses aside"

- ‘just for now,’ imogen heap